SKY RAY 9xT6 9xCREE XM-L T6 2x/3x26550/18650 5000LM 5-mode Super Brightness Flashlight---Brightness Over DRY

The T40CS is quite a good candidate. Well driven + well heatsinked, stable driver. It is advertised to be 788 lumens OTF. I measured it to be in the same ballpark as well.

So seems to be factor of 20 is better.

If you have a good DMM/short leads……and TF 26650s, you can have a better idea then. I can supply my results with the TF X100.

Sorry I typed my first reply to you with figures from my head. Doh. I have since edited them. Upon reflection I agree with your figure of 20. :slight_smile:

Damn, you got my fingers itchy again.

I am sort of waiting for the 12 XM-L model. :party:

Given the adjustment I’m still even more confident that the Sky Ray is on the WOW side of 3500 lumens.

Yeah, most likely worst case scenario of 3500 lumens OTF. Using “OTF” is great, coz it doesn’t care how much the glass is cutting, how lousy the reflector is, driver efficiency etc.

But as always, to notice a jump in brightness, you’d need a min of 20% and that’s assuming with the same sized hotspot. So there really is not much of an upgrade from TF X100 to this Sky Ray.

Maybe you could get to a distance of say 7 metres and measure the lux? I guess you know how to convert to lux @ 1m or candelas, if not just post the RAW figure.

I don’t have anything with which I can measure the distance at the moment. How about I take some lux readings from the same spot with the Crelant, Sunwayman and Sky Ray? That way we should be able to estimate the distance given the previously tested, by you or others, lux @ 1m of the Crelant and the Sunwayman. And therefore the lux @ 1m of the Sky Ray. First I’m going to have to walk the dog though!

Yeah you could do that. The SWM T40CS and Fenix TK70 would be just fine. No problem you can walk the dog, i just had my dinner and going to bathe. LOL!

Try to do at least 7 metres, preferably 10m and above.

OK. Here goes. Please note that its as windy as hell so conditions aren’t ideal. Plus I may not have got the exact distance each time but it would be within a foot each time.

Sky Ray 225
Crelant 443
T40CS 485
TK70 107

If my T40CS is a slight over performer and the Crelant a slight under performer it looks like I’ve managed to measure at almost exactly 10m. Woohoo! I say that because Selfbuilts CPF test got 48500 for the Crelant and 46700 for the T40CS. You may have more accurate starting figures. My T40Cs definitely out-throws my Crelant by about 10% as I retested them together several times.

So what’s that? 300 metres for the Sky Ray. Not bad for a flooder.

So my lights are going to seem 10% dimmer now. :cry: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

You must be talking about the Crelant 7G5 V2 sicne you mentioned 48500. That is not a good candidate as a few here got underperforming copies as well. It was actually very evident even visible in the photos. ILIKEFLASHLIGHTS actually sent his back and the new copy was better.

The TK70 could be 1070 (times 10)? Anyway I got ~50k for the T40CS. *The Sky Ray 9 XM-L seems to be in the low 20k cd range, same as the Trustfire J12.
*The TF X100 is 38k cd, just shy of 40k.

I’ll put this as a seperate post for the benefit of others. Seems like this one is in the low 20k cd range.

Yeah it was the 7G5 V2. Mine is a bit crap evidently. So it sounds as though I was at 10m and you can simply multiple my results by 100. So 48500 for the T40CS. The Tk70 was 1070, sorry! So that makes it 107000. Does that sound ok for the TK70?

It’s a bit high, but i think some got 102k cd, believe it was saabluster’s. Sometimes it depends on the meter, when it’s close to the limit it could go a wee bit wonky (sensor thingy) due to non-linearity. Obviously other than the focus of the light, we try not to measure at 1m coz the powerful lights just does not hit the light sensor in its optimum range. (depends on the $$$ ie sensor quality but we shall leave that out in this case).

I got 93k cd. There are a few others in the 90k cd range.

It says it reads to 400000 lux. I got 167k for my de-domed SR90(it was an ordinary performer at 111K beforehand) and the hotspot, but not the dead centre, for my 55W HID. I got 719K for the dead centre of the HID!

xeno eo3??? isnt that like a penlight thats only 5 inches?

can you send me a link?

I would like this also.


EDC+“:http://edcplus.com/black-xeno-e03-with-xml-cool-white-u2-p-14.html

so your telling me that little light has massive flood? even more than the skyray king, and x100 etc…. i find this hard to believe.
anyone own this xeno eo3?

so your telling me that little light has massive flood? even more than the skyray king, and x100 etc…. i find this hard to believe.
anyone own this xeno eo3?
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I don’t have those other two lights, but it’s very floody to me. It’s not a pure flooder, but it’s floody enough that I generally don’t like it for night hikes…I like having a nice hot spot for range. It’s even floodier with the light saber attachment.

I have been EDCing the Xeno E03 NW for nearly a year, and also a iTP A1……to my keys. Yeah believe it’s a little floodier than the typical 55mm head diameter triple XM-Ls.

It’s a XM-L + 14500 (ie 14mm cells, how big can it get) + Orange peel. Doesn’t take much imagination to guess that it is a flooder.

Of course i am leaving out those Zebralights/UF-H series stuff which are pure flooders via unreflectored emitters.